Barashyt(Genesis) — 34

1 Now Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she had borne to Ya'aqub, went out to see the daughters of the land. 

2 And when Shacham the son of Hamur the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her and lay with her, and violated her. 

3 His soul was strongly attracted to Dinah the daughter of Ya'aqub, and he loved the young woman and spoke kindly to the young woman. 

4 So Shacham spoke to his father Hamur, saying, “Get me this young woman as a wife.”

5 And Ya'aqub heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter. Now his sons were with his livestock in the field; so Ya'aqub held his Shalum until they came. 

6 Then Hamur the father of Shacham went out to Ya'aqub to speak with him. 

7 And the sons of Ya'aqub came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved and very angry, because he had done a shameful thing in YASHAR'AL by lying with Ya'aqub’s daughter, a thing which ought not to be done. 

8 But Hamur spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shacham longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife. 

9 And make marriages with us; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters to yourselves. 

10 So you shall dwell with us, and the land shall be before you. Dwell and trade in it, and acquire possessions for yourselves in it.”

11 Then Shacham said to her father and her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give. 

12 Ask me ever so much dowry and gift, and I will give according to what you say to me; but give me the young woman as a wife.”

13 But the sons of Ya'aqub answered Shacham and Hamur his father, and spoke deceitfully, because he had defiled Dinah their sister. 

14 And they said to them, “We cannot do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised, for that would be a reproach to us. 

15 But on this condition we will consent to you: If you will become as we are, if every male of you is circumcised, 

16 then we will give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us; and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people. 

17 But if you will not heed us and be circumcised, then we will take our daughter and be gone.”

18 And their words pleased Hamur and Shacham, Hamur’s son. 

19 So the young man did not delay to do the thing, because he delighted in Ya'aqub’s daughter. He was more honorable than all the household of his father.

20 And Hamur and Shacham his son came to the gate of their city, and spoke with the men of their city, saying: 

21 “These men are at Shalum with us. Therefore let them dwell in the land and trade in it. For indeed the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters to us as wives, and let us give them our daughters. 

22 Only on this condition will the men consent to dwell with us, to be one people: if every male among us is circumcised as they are circumcised. 

23 Will not their livestock, their property, and every animal of theirs be ours? Only let us consent to them, and they will dwell with us.” 

24 And all who went out of the gate of his city heeded Hamur and Shacham his son; every male was circumcised, all who went out of the gate of his city.

25 Now it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of the sons of Ya'aqub, Shimun and Lauy, Dinah’s brothers, each took his sword and came boldly upon the city and killed all the males. 

26 And they killed Hamur and Shacham his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah from Shacham’s house, and went out. 

27 The sons of Ya'aqub came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because their sister had been defiled. 

28 They took their sheep, their oxen, and their donkeys, what was in the city and what was in the field, 

29 and all their wealth. All their little ones and their wives they took captive; and they plundered even all that was in the houses.

30 Then Ya'aqub said to Shimun and Lauy, “You have troubled me by making me obnoxious among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Parizzites; and since I am few in number, they will gather themselves together against me and kill me. I shall be destroyed, my household and I.”

31 But they said, “Should he treat our sister like a harlot?”